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On the Death of Satyrus and On the Belief in the Resurrection

by Saint Ambrose Read by InTheDesert 5
Two related addresses occasioned by the unexpected death of Ambrose's brother Satyrus: On the Death of a Brother (De excessu fratris Satyri)…

A Practical Treatise of Fear

by John Flavel Read by InTheDesert 4.8
Wherein the various kinds, uses, causes, effects, and remedies thereof are distinctly opened and prescribed, for the relief and encouragemen…

Concerning Grace and Free Will

by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and Saint Bernard Of Clairvaux Read by InTheDesert 4.4
The subject of the treatise was suggested, as is plain from the text itself, as the result of a public, or at any rate semi-public, discussi…

A Rescue from Death, with a Return of Praise

by Richard Sibbes Read by InTheDesert 5
A sermon, preached after the cessation of the 1625-1626 plague in London, where "from above five thousand a week it is come to three pe…

Commentary on Hebrews Chapter 8

by John Owen Read by InTheDesert
I should rejoice if any of you felt emboldened on . my advice to grapple with a work so ponderous as Owen’s Commentary on that Epistle - a l…

Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism

by Zacharias Ursinus Read by InTheDesert 5
These lectures present a complete exposition of all the leading doctrines of the Christian religion in a most concise and simple form, adapt…

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book 1

by Richard Hooker Read by InTheDesert 4.5
Hooker resolved to investigate the position of the English Church, and to attempt to answer the question What is the basis upon which Church…

Christianity in the 18th and 19th Century, Volume 1

by Various Read by InTheDesert
The 30 works in this volume are arranged thematically around the following headings: materialism or anti-supernaturalism (responses to David…

A Family Well-Ordered

by Cotton Mather Read by InTheDesert 4.8
An essay to render parents and children happy in one another handling two very important cases: I. What are the duties to be done by pious p…

The Analogy of Religion to the Constitution and Course of Nature

by Joseph Butler Read by InTheDesert 5
Joseph Butler's great work is the Analogy, published in 1736, and from that day read and admired by every highly-cultivated mind. He was ind…

Charles Simeon

by Handley Carr Glyn Moule Read by InTheDesert 5
Charles Simeon had come up to King’s college from Eton, a wild undergraduate, famous for his love of horses and extravagance in dress; but o…

Two Godly and Learned Sermons

by John Calvin Read by InTheDesert 5
Two godly and learned sermons, made by that famous and worthy instrument in God's church, John Calvin. Which sermons were long since transla…

The Art of Prophesying

by William Perkins Read by InTheDesert 4.1
A treatise concerning the sacred and only true manner and method of preaching. To the faithful ministers of the gospel and to all that are d…

Three Sermons on Hebrews 1:1-2

by Thomas Goodwin Read by InTheDesert 5
God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us…

The B. B. Warfield Collection, Volume 2

by Benjamin B. Warfield Read by InTheDesert 5
Warfield wrote many articles for Bible dictionaries and encyclopedias on diverse subjects and managed to condense dense subjects into the li…

The Age of the Puritans, Volume 3

by Various Read by InTheDesert 5
This volume of Age of the Puritans contains a wide diversity of writers and topics from the later 16th and 17th centuries. Not all would ide…

Christian Home Life

by S. S. Pugh Read by InTheDesert 5
The more carefully we consider the law of the family as ordained by God, and view it in relation to the higher necessities of man’s spiritua…

Preparations for Sufferings

by John Flavel Read by InTheDesert 4.5
That sufferings, both bodily and mental, are the lot of humanity, the testimony of scripture and reason abundantly confirm. But whatever may…

To My Younger Brethren

by Handley Moule and Handley Carr Glyn Moule Read by InTheDesert 4.8
Let me explain in this first sentence that when in these pages I address "my Younger Brethren," I mean brethren in the Christian M…

On the Good of Marriage

by Saint Augustine of Hippo Read by InTheDesert 4
This treatise, and the following, were written against somewhat that still remained of the heresy of Jovinian. S. Aug. mentions this error i…

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